Subscribe Today!

I had just hung up the phone. It was a good interview, and a key one for that sidewalk story I just published. I was working outside on our patio table last Monday, a gorgeous afternoon. The fam had just gotten home from the beach, and as I was gesticulating about my...

Grey and cloudy - with a rainbow and blue skies at the end. It’s an analogy for my week! Visibility-wise, it’s been my slowest since The Phoenix launched. I’ve been busy behind the scenes of course, but if you look at my website and Facebook, it’s been pretty quiet...

My first job as a reporter was in the summer of 1999. I developed my black and white photos in a tiny darkroom (devastating when you screw up and lose a roll), and on production days, I’d measure out my stories, paste them on a big board for each page (forget what...

The crappy thing about making mistakes is – you don’t typically recognize it until you are in the thick of it. I found myself in the midst of a do-it-yourself dilemma a few weeks ago during a drive from my Calgary home to Vancouver. It wasn’t an easy decision to pack...

Back in October, I was really stuck. The Peachland Phoenix had a name, and very clear reason to be - even a logo. But there was something I was approaching with dread. I’m not a salesperson, and the traditional media model of advertising-generated revenue made me...

It’s a rainy morning and it’s supposed to be an 80% chance of this continuing through the day. As my daughter just said of the fog that’s rolling in, “it looks plain out there.” Anyway, I was up doing some planning and remembered a few pictures local photographer...

I woke up this morning to the most overnight page views ever. I remember the same kind of thrill when I was at the Calgary Sun. Mega pressure before deadline, agonizing over what you printed, and then the next day, you grab a Herald and a Sun, walk into the newsroom,...

Quietly, quietly, I walk the long way around the house to check the garden. The back deck is a more direct route, but it’s squeaky and my daughter wakes up like a shot at the smallest sound. I’m balancing coffee, my laptop and my phone. I want to see if my seedlings...

Looks like the rain has let up! These pics are from about 24 hours ago - we hiked Goats Peak for the first time. Won’t lie, this wasn’t high on my to-do list because of that right turn you have to make off Drought Hill at Seclusion Bay Rd. But if you haven’t been,...